Re: Re: Linked lists (was osascript - path to me)
Re: Re: Linked lists (was osascript - path to me)
- Subject: Re: Re: Linked lists (was osascript - path to me)
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 17:18:06 EDT
No matter how fast you make AS, we'll always want it faster : )
Now the philosophical question is, "Do you try to make AS faster, knowing we'll never be satisfied, or fix the other bugs and missing features?"
Me, I want lots and lots more raw speed.
Jeff Baumann
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www.linkedresources.com
In a message dated 5/20/02 2:26:37 PM, Christopher Nebel writes:
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As for the lengths people will go to to find the most efficient way to
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script something, I have a theory: I suspect the only reason it's such
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a popular "sport" is that AppleScript is so ^#@!ing slow. If we could
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remove the performance drags and support real object model operations so
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scripters didn't have to write hand-coded loops and copy list data back
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and forth all the time, people would be comfortable writing their
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scripts the way the founders intended. Or do people spend time on this
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just because they think it's fun?
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